Sally Mann
American · 1951–
Photographer whose large-format images of her children, Southern landscapes, and bodily decomposition explore memory, mortality, and the American South.
Wikipedia ↗“Photographs open doors into the past, but they also allow a look into the future.”
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“I think it's really hard to see clearly, because the older you get, the more you've seen, and the more the past and future impose themselves on the present.”
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“The real gift of the camera to us is that it gives us the power of acute and intensified attention.”
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“Memory is the best photographer.”
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“What is the thing that you are most afraid of? Go after it. That's the picture.”
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